Coalesce: Dance Video Post Production

I must admit, I really enjoyed editing the footage I gathered on shoot days. As somebody who's always amazed when I see visual effects on screen, I have always wondered "how did they do that?!". The editing process of this video was both a learning curve and so much fun for me. I have done some simple editing in Premiere Pro prior to this project, but I really wanted to make this video look how I envisioned it or at least something close to that.

Having little knowledge of the effects I could use in Premiere Pro, I took to the internet and to the music videos that intrigue me when I watch them. I spent a couple of days just playing around with different effects and seeing how they changed the whole vibe of the video and added character to the narrative which was of course a dream-like state where things seem normal but they're a little weird, different and distorted. From playing around with the effects on Premiere Pro, I really started to understand how they worked and how I could possibly try to replicate some of the visual effects I had seen in The Weeknd's // Party Monster,  Frank Ocean's // Nikes video and also 6Lack's // PRBLMS video.

When I took the rushes from the shoot day into Premiere Pro, I didn't really need to do much organising of the footage because I knew what order we took the shots in and there wasn't that much footage to organise in the first place.

I looked through all the footage and began to add footage into different sequences scene by scene. and organised everything onto my sequence timeline following my narrative. I then colour corrected using the Lumetri Color controls in PP. I did this first so that I could have a foundation down before I started adding my effects to the video, because I wasn't too sure how I was going to do it at the start.


The Effects I added in Premiere Pro

Old VHS Effect

After duplicating my clip twice I used the Arithmetic effect on PP, changed the red, green and blue values and displaced the red value a little bit. 

Trippy Effect

To create this effect, I used the opacity control in the timeline to create the "flashing" effect. I duplicated the clip to change the hue of each different clip. 

Rose Overlay

I wanted to add a very subtle overlay of a Rose and have it spin zoom out of frame so I used keyframes to do that.

Title

I used keyframes to toggle the glow and opacity of the title.

Cloud Overlay

 I had this footage of the cloud flashing within my rushes, so I chose to overlay that above the dancer and then played around with the blending modes, opacity and masks. 

Shrooms

I used the opacity control again to create the flashing effect and used a stock image of a mushroom, overlayed it, changed the blending modes, added a wave warp effect to it.

Foot Spark

Same process as shrooms, except used keyframes to control hue.

Seeing Doubles

Duplicated the clip and used the pin light blending mode and wave warp effect.